Category: SEO Related

January 14, 2014

SEO Related

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is a continuous journey, it's not a destination. In order to rank high on search engine results, you need to do several things that can help you rank. Some of them are listed below: Search engine optimization (SEO) is a continuous journey, it's not a destination. In order to rank high on search engine results, you need to do several things that can help you rank. Some of them are listed below: 1. Willing to change and work hard You need to improve your website by implementing certain things and making changes on your website. Take help and advice of your SEO provider, as they will tell you what works best for your website and it is upto you to implement. You need to work on certain things to bring your website into shape. 2. Stay true to yourself When coming to making changes in your website, you should not do things that you like, instead do things that are recommended by the SEO provider. In this way it will help you rank high on Google. read_more 3. Having the right equipment helps a lot Your work becomes easy if you have the right equipment. If you want your website to rank first on Google's result page, you need to have a good domain name, clean web pages, good SEO tool and a good server. By doing so will help you get good results. 4. Stop trying to game the system To get quick search engine optimization results, you may consider some spammy techniques that may show you immediate results. But these methods will work only for some time, because Google will sooner or later detect the spam methods and your website will be de-indexed. If you are ready to bring the change in your website, you will get the rankings that it deserves. Though getting top 10 rankings on Google isn't that easy, but it's not that difficult either. You only have to do things that are right for your website. If you haven't done it yet, try 4GoodHosting's SEO services now. We will help you to get your website in shape and it will...

January 9, 2014

Hosting Related, SEO Related

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Just think of your website thermometer rustling its wings comfortably in waters crowded with competitors all aiming at the same goal – to attract the buyers’ attention. But here is the catch: Your website is embarking on quite the convoy with many other websites and not all of them will be the best at handling their ships (in this case, sites). Sounds chaotic, right? It is where dedicated IP addresses come into the play! Picture this: You have wrought hours, days, weeks, possibly months, selecting content, designing, and searching out the perfect keywords and SEO and have nicely waked up to find another site shamelessly sharing your IP indulge in spamming. All of a sudden, your ship gets capsized and your website rankings take the plunge too… Oh no! Well, worry not because in this blog we’re going to demystify dedicated IP addresses further and how they can be the secret ingredient for your SEO! This is a blog dedicated to explaining dedicated IP addresses in the context of SEO while telling you about 4GoodHosting – a reliable web hosting provider in Canada that makes dreams into realities. So, sit tight and prepare your selves to embark on a comic strip across the cyber-sea of search engine optimization! What is Dedicated IP address? A dedicated IP address may be compared with your personal parking space in the great avenues consisting of Internet freeway where everyone has own space. This is in contrast to the general shared hosting where many websites are hosted over a single IP address; the IP address that will be assigned to you will be a unique one since you’ll have the site to yourself. We are aware that it is the only one the world and it can be accessed only if your website is the one to turn to it. Cool, right? Using the shared hosting method, you may be given a plan whereby all the sites are given a single IP address. At other times, these other sites may be spamming, or may be on a blacklist and this can have a detrimental effect on your SEO. This risk, however, can be eliminated through...

January 7, 2014

SEO Related

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It will no longer be possible to build a link just by spamming, thanks to Google's latest updates. This is a move initiated by Google. Now, some wise moves have to be made in order to achieve victory in 2014. It's more fun to build links in 2014 You might have came across a few articles on the Internet stating that building links is not possible any longer. These are the people who do not know any other means of building a link other than spamming. Speaking concisely, the traditional ways of buildings links through creating backlinks automatically in bulk and creating fake profiles on social media to get backlinks are not going to work today. Older techniques like spamming article websites and forums with cheap and unreliable matter and automated link networks do not work today.In short: spamming does not work anymore. read_more So much have been lost since the Google's recent updates but the basic necessity of building links stands still in order to achieve high rankings on Google. This has been made clear by Google's Matt Cutts in an interview. “Links are still the best way that we’ve found to discover [how relevant or important somebody is], and maybe over time social or authorship or other types of markup will give us a lot more information about that.” 2. Relevance is more important One of the important concepts introduced by Google last year, one is “Things, not strings”. The need and cause of a link has become further made important with this concept. The context has become important. There is now a demand for synchronization between your website and the web pages that provide links to your website in terms of topics and purpose. Though Google has been reiterating these things for years, it now seems to be serious about it. “Natural” is the motto adopted by the Google. Google wants that the keywords entered by the user should relate your website in close approximations. It does not want your websites should contain the exact keywords. Such an event will put filters into action that will eliminate your website in search results based on being “Unnatural”. Google...

December 19, 2013

SEO Related

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Matt Cutts, the big cheese of Google's anti-spam team, has published another seo-insider video on YouTube. In this video, he answers the question why Interflora's penalty was lifted after just 11 days. Does Google have different penalties for different websites ? How was Interflora's website penalized? Earlier in 2013, the website of Interflora (a popular UK flower website) was penalized because the company had bought many backlinks from various newspaper websites. After only 11 days, their website was back in Google's index. Typically most websites need several months to recover from Google penalties. In the YouTube video, Mr. Cutts was asked by another website operator to explain the penalty process applied to the Interflora website : read_more Matt Cutt's generalized explanation Dubiously, Matt Cutts didn't want to talk about specific penalties or companies. In the video, he said that repeat offenders get hit with a stronger penalty than websites that have used spam tools or carpet-backlinking for the first time : "Google tends to look at buying and selling links that pass PageRank as a violation of our guidelines and if we see that happening multiple times, repeated times, then the actions that we take get more and more severe. So we're more willing to take stronger action whenever we see repeated violations." It appears that Interflora was actually a first time offender and that they were not fully aware that the paid links from newspaper websites could cause problems. When Interflora removed the newly purchased links, Google restored the previous rankings of the website. And so what does this mean for your website? If you have received a spam warning message from Google, you should remove all spam elements from your pages and you should try to remove all spammy links that point to your web pages. Interflora's high rankings have been restored because the company already had high rankings before they acquired the paid links. If your website received high rankings because of the paid links before Google detected them, it's likely that your web pages still won't get high rankings when Google lifts the penalty. So if you want your rankings back, Google expects you to take...

December 14, 2013

SEO Related

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If you think it is difficult for your website to get backlinks, because your business is in an industry that's not that popular. Then there is no reason to worry, because if your site has many blog posts written on the topic that you are associated with, then it is much easier to get backlinks. Your website can get backlinks even if your business or product is uncommon. Step 1: Create a list of related topics Always keep your business at the top of the list and start expanding the list. • Start analyzing the topics that are essential to your business • Now, analyze which topics are related to your businesses • Find out your business vertical • Find the business verticals that are related to your business • See, which parent category is similar to your business • Find, whether there are any related parent categories read_more • Check, if there are broader or loosely related topics. If you are into paper manufacturing, you may consider, “art”, “newspaper”, “office supplies, etc. • Find who your vendors are • Check if there are any hot topics or industry trends • List out your competitors • List out as many topics as possible Step 2: Prepare a list of related people and communities Once you find relevant topics, find relevant people: • Go through your business associations and then prepare a list of association members • Check online communities that are similar to your business • Also find communities that are broadly relevant to your business • Check who blogs about your topics and other things • Find out the enthusiasts and experts in your industry Step 3: Examine and filter your lists Once you are done with the lists, separate the good ones from the scrap: • Check the social media profiles and blogs of the people that you have collected from the above list. • Check if they are active in social media, see their communities. • Check the relevancy of the communities to your business. • See, the big influencers. • Find out the small influencers. • When you are checking the influencers and communities there is...